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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:42:09
Message-Id: 1334565624.2668.1.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About adding a way to check for bugs referring to no longer existing packages in the tree by Jeroen Roovers
1 El lun, 16-04-2012 a las 03:04 +0200, Jeroen Roovers escribió:
2 > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:55:04 +0200
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Well, I currently manually do eix searching to check it, maybe would
6 > > be a way to compare eix outputs with "${CATEGORY}/${PKGNAME}" from bug
7 > > summaries (bugs without that naming structure would be uncovered by
8 > > this, but we would still be able to easily check for obsolete bug
9 > > reports).
10 >
11 > I only started fixing summaries to include valid, canonical
12 > cat/pkg[-ver] strings a few years ago because searching for a full
13 > atom in bugzilla's search would otherwise (and still does) fail.
14 >
15 > Before that it was mayhem, and it's mainly the older bugs you appear be
16 > worried about. Having a list of bugs to fix the cat/pkg for would have
17 > more uses than the one you're interested in.
18 >
19 >
20 > jer
21 >
22 >
23
24 I obviously agree, but both suggestions are not mutually exclusive I
25 think :)

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